I'm Gina Smith

Withdraw as soon as your work is done!

Good Predictions from the Tao.

To hold and fill to overflowing
Is not as good as to stop in time.
Sharpen a knife-edge to its very sharpest,
And the edge will not last long.
When gold and diamonds fill your hall,
You will not be able to keep them.
To be proud with honor and wealth
Is to cause one's own downfall.
Withdraw as soon as your work is done.
Such is the Way. (Lao-Tzu)

Tao of the Day (81)

From the Tao Te Ching (verse 81)

True words are not beautiful.
Beautiful words are not true.
The good are not argumentative.
The argumentative are not good.
Knowers do not generalize.
Generalizers do not know.

I am thinking this goes counter to everything I've ever done in my career. 1.) Journalists try to make their words as true and beautiful as possible. 2.) We try to be argumentative, so far as showing both sides of an argument make it fair. 3.) And we think we know things because we are such generalists. I was a GA (general assignment) reporter for a few years before I started specializing in tech.

Expert for a day in anything, and that seemed good at the time.

Tao of the Day (56)

I have been reading an entry from the Tao Te Ching every day for a while now. No. 56 is my favorite:

"Those who know do not say.
Those who say do not know."

I think this is like when you're a kid talking about farting: "He who smellt it, dealt it."

That's mature.

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